Writing
Harold Buchman
Born 1912-06-24
Acting credits
Behind the camera
6.5A Harvard-educated, big-city lawyer moves to a small Arizona town to set up practice. His first case is defending a beautiful socialite accused of murdering her husband. This is the pilot TV movie for what would become the Petrocelli TV series.
Night Games
1974
6.5Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her father Timothy, who is constantly practicing his air raid warden duties, her mother Gladys, an aspiring Red Cross worker, and cousin Imogene, who studies incessantly to become a "quiz kid." The Dugans rent out their spare rooms to Dixie's fiancé, Matt Hogan, and to blustering Judge J. J. Lawson. Matt, who works in a munitions factory, wants Dixie to settle down and marry him, but Dixie is determined to help her country.
Dixie Dugan
1943
5.7Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
On the Fiddle
1961
10.0A happy girl marries into the family of a stern shoemaker and leads a mutiny.
Jennie
1940
5.9Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.
The Lawyer
1970
10.0Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
The Naked Earth
1958
7.0After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.
The Case of the Missing Man
1935
5.6A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
The Sleeping Tiger
1954
9.0A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.
Come Closer, Folks
1936
6.0A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Take It or Leave It
1944
7.5After inheriting a New York City art gallery, bookie Milton Berle and his partner Cesar Romero decide to go into the art forgery business. Director Ray McCarey's 1942 comedy also stars Carole Landis, J. Carrol Naish, Steven Geray, Richard Derr, Rose Hobart, Elisha Cook Jr., Chick Chandler, Francis Pierlot and Jerome Cowan.
A Gentleman at Heart
1942
7.0A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
The Forgotten Woman
1939
6.2Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.
Cynthia
1947
6.0When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover old-fashioned family values.
The Perfect Snob
1941
10.0Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a new job and then a promotion but is tricked into a bad business deal and wants to go back to his old life.
Don't Gamble with Love
1936
5.4A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.
It Happened in Flatbush
1942
8.0In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.
North of Shanghai
1939
6.4Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
A Matter of WHO
1961
5.3A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Double Alibi
1940
6.1Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even though he is a leader in the French Resistance. His nurse supports his activities, but her Nazi-brainwashed husband provides the tension.
Paris After Dark
1943
8.0A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
Manhattan Heartbeat
1940
6.5Dinner party guests become murder suspects when an extortionist they all hated turns up dead.
Blackmailer
1936
4.7When old rancher Cordoba's grandson is murdered, the Cisco Kid takes his place to find who's trying to take over the ranch.
Romance of the Rio Grande
1941
6.9An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
Trapped by Television
1936